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♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ it doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, we're doing fine ♪

♪ it doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

[Peaceful music]

[Children laughing]

[Child] Hurry up!

[Children laughing]

Ah, ah, I think not.

You don't own it, Archie.

[Speaking in Latin]

I think you'll find.

Okay, let's get started, shall we?

The day after tomorrow,

the right honourable Geoffrey parks mp

will be visiting the school to open the new computer centre.

Well, it wouldn't be a language lab, would it?

That boy couldn't conjugate a verb to save his life.

So, Mr. Parks will be accompanied by

a dozen or so members of the press,

and also by his daughter, Melissa,

who is his private secretary.

I'm sure many of you will remember Melissa

from her time here as a pupil.

I hope someone put the caterers on red alert.

Archie.

[Machine whirring]

[Archie] I'll get it, shall I?

Yes.

[Ominous music]

He's been in the ground long enough

and fits the height and age description,

but New Zealand police say that it might be up to 48 hours

before they can match the dental records,

so there is a window if you want us to use it.

Hiya.

Okay, we'll do our best.

Thanks, bye.

Who's this?

Jason bowe, a 25-year-old pe teacher from New Zealand.

He worked at peregrine manor school,

but went missing on the 29th June 2007.

Was the last day of the school year.

The body was found just outside the school grounds.

According to the pathologist,

there's no obvious cause of death,

but there is a slight Nick to the lower ribs,

which could've been caused by a stab wound.

Now we got a body,

presumably it will go to the murder squad.

There's gonna be a 48 hour delay

before New Zealand can match the dental records,

so strickland wants us to reopen the missing persons case

in the hope we can tie things up

before the press get hold of it.

What have the press got to do with it?

Peregrine manor school is very old, very expensive,

and only accepts very high profile offspring,

so the tabloids will be all over the place once mit go in.

[Children laughing]

I do appreciate the police

being so discreet in this situation.

Sadly, I don't have anything to add

to what I said at the time.

Awful as it sounds, i'd forgotten all about Jason.

Staff come and go, time rolls on.

We need to establish his last known movements.

Now, according to the file,

you noticed he'd gone in the morning, is that right?

Yes, he was in school for tea the night before,

and then failed to show up for breakfast

or for morning meeting.

And you thought he'd left during the night?

Yes.

Well, no, the school is locked up at 11,

so I thought he'd left either the previous evening

or earlier that morning,

while we were all still at breakfast.

Do you not check that all the teachers

are in the building before locking up?

It's hard enough keeping track of the students

without having to do lights out for the staff too.

But you didn't think it odd,

him just upping and leaving with only one day left?

A lifetime in school has taught me

that youth often acts on impulse.

I didn't call the police, but I did call his home.

This should all be on your files.

[Phone rings]

I'm sorry about this.

We have a very high profile event later in the week,

and I need to finalise all the arrangements.

Let me take you to Helen, our home support.

I'm sure she'll be able to help you.

Eleanor, take any messages,

unless, of course, it's Geoffrey parks' office,

in which case, transfer them to my mobile.

[Brian] Geoffrey parks, the mp?

Yes, he is an ex-pupil.

We used to be in the same year here,

and we've been friends ever since.

Geoffrey has kindly agreed to open the new computer centre.

Ah, Helen, there you are.

We have some visitors.

[Helen] The police, I presume?

Are we that obvious?

No, no, but we've all heard about

the find in the woods, I'm afraid.

Helen Hadley, nurse and home support.

We used to use the word matron, much simpler.

Archie milgrow, Latin.

Detective superintendent Pullman.

These are my colleagues, Gerry standing and Brian Lane.

They have some questions about Jason bowe.

If you could.

I'm up to my eyes.

Of course.

Is the body Jason bowe's?

Well, we can't be sure, but it's possible.

Jason bowe was last seen at teatime by your head teacher.

Did either of you see him after that?

No.

But that's not unusual, because most of the staff

go to their rooms and relax after tea.

The evening's my busy time, not the teachers'.

And how well did either of you know him?

Pe and Latin aren't a natural mix.

We'd be speaking a different language in more ways than one.

Now, if you'll excuse me,

I better go and prepare for upper 3a

and the imperfect tense,

the irony of which will no doubt strike

halfway through the lesson.

I like Jason.

We weren't overly close, but he was good fun.

Was he seeing anyone?

Not that I know of.

Close friends on the staff?

I don't think he had many.

He liked to drink in the pub of an evening,

but I think he was closer to the students than the teachers.

I mean, they were his age.

That's him on the right.

Wasn't exactly handsome, but he had something about him.

Don't you think?

This was a couple of days before he disappeared.

York.

Did they stay away?

They must've done.

Who's that boy, Oliver lebbon?

He's the sports captain.

Very

popular.

I didn't warm to him, but that's just me.

He was very close to Jason.

Probably closer to him than any of the staff were.

[Sandra] I take it you're not an athlete anymore.

Smashed my leg surfing the summer after school.

Now I can't run for a bus.

God, I'm so late!

I should've been back 20 minutes ago, dad's gonna kill me.

Hi.

Police.

Asking questions about Mr. Bowe.

Mr. Bowe from school?

My girlfriend, Melissa parks.

Detective superintendent Pullman.

So, you were at peregrine manor as well, were you?

Yes.

We were in the same year together.

He went missing, didn't he?

Mr. Bowe.

[Phone rings]

Hi.

Yes, I know, I'm sorry,

I ran into a girlfriend from uni and we lost track of...

Yes, I'm heading back now.

Okay, I'll see you in...

Charming.

Tell me, how would you characterise

your relationship with Jason bowe?

I liked Mr. Bowe.

He was a good coach.

Laugh, too.

Not like the rest.

Were you ever in trouble with him?

No.

He was cool.

Did he talk to you about his personal life?

Was he seeing anyone?

There was no school gossip, if that's what you're asking.

Some of the girls had crushes, but...

[Laughing]

Two days before he disappeared,

you were all away on a sports trip.

Were you still getting on with him then?

Yeah, we were.

Actually,

he was a bit weird.

Distracted.

Snappy.

Not like him.

[Sandra] Did you ask why?

No.

And he didn't say.

That evening when you got back to the school,

did you see him at any point?

No, I don't think so.

But it was five years ago.

I'm a bit hazy.

I saw you when you got back.

I met you by the mini bus.

You were still talking to Mr. Bowe, joking about something.

Just before tea?

Oh, there you go, then.

Then he saw another teacher and just left us mid-sentence.

They started quite an intense chat.

Who was the other teacher?

Oh, god, I can see him in my head, but the name's gone.

Old, dull, fuddy-duddy.

Wasn't it that Latin teacher?

Mildew?

Milgrow, Mr. Milgrow.

They were arguing about something, you're right.

We just left them to it.

That was the last time I saw Mr. Bowe.

You lied to us.

On the evening that Jason bowe disappeared,

you were seen having an argument with him,

which is somewhat surprising,

considering you told us you hardly ever spoke to him.

I didn't.

If you're observant,

and I like to consider myself an observer of life,

then you find you can know a person

without talking to them very much at all.

But yes, we did have words.

What about?

I've never been keen on the over-popular teachers.

You can be loved too much by students.

You can want to be loved by them too much.

It can cloud one's judgement.

The relationship between lebbon and Jason bowe

was a good example.

They were more like friends than student and teacher.

The particular case in question concerned a hunting knife

that lebbon had brought into the school.

He had been told to hand it over to Jason bowe, his tutor.

I heard about it and checked with bowe

that the item had at least been confiscated.

And had it?

No.

He said lebbon hadn't got round to handing it in yet,

as if it was a mobile telephone or something.

That was just before they left for the championships.

When they got back, I told bowe enough was enough,

and I expected the knife to be in his possession

by the following morning.

But by morning, bowe had vanished.

And what about the knife?

I've no idea what happened to it.

It was the last day of term.

I'm afraid I didn't pursue it.

Did you see Oliver lebbon at all that night?

I didn't.

Presumably, he was cavorting with Eleanor Higgins, as usual.

The most popular couple in school.

Now, one of them is a failed athlete,

and the other one is the headmistress's secretary.

So often the case with those who peak too early.

So, you were Oliver lebbon's girlfriend?

When did you break up?

Pretty much as soon as school did.

It was not that serious.

And now he's with Melissa parks.

Melissa was always mooning around after Oliver.

Guess she must've eventually got him drunk enough.

Was he ever violent?

Did he get into many fights at school?

Oliver?

No.

Who'd want to fight him?

He was incredibly popular.

We understand he collected Japanese blades,

still does, apparently.

And he brought a knife to the school

at the end of that term.

What has any of this got to do

with Mr. Bowe's disappearance?

[Gerry] He was supposed to hand

the knife in to Jason bowe.

How'd you think he'd react to that?

Being told to get rid of it.

I don't know.

Brian?

I've lost me glasses.

Well, that wasn't very clever, was it?

The necklace.

That's Jason bowe's.

It's the one he's wearing

in that picture out in the hall there.

[Gerry] Now, that is interesting.

So, you were seeing him as well at the time.

It wasn't like that.

What was it like?

I was in love with him.

I thought he was in love with me too.

And were you still seeing him when he disappeared?

Yes.

You thought he was in love with you?

How do you mean thought?

Well, he ran off, didn't he?

At least I thought he did.

You didn't wonder why?

I used to get jealous.

All the girls had crushes on him.

They used to make up stories

about what they'd done with him.

I used to get scared they weren't just stories.

I'm sure I wasn't easy to be with.

Where were you when he disappeared?

I was in my dorm.

Can you prove that?

There's a lock up book.

The whole school's locked up at night,

so no one can get in or out.

We had to sign in so they knew we were inside.

Could Oliver lebbon have

discovered you were two-timing him?

No.

I don't know, I don't think so.

Bastard.

I totally looked up to him.

What happened to the knife you had at school?

- What knife? - The hunting knife,

you were supposed to hand it in to Mr. Bowe.

Oh, that knife.

It was a hitori hunter, very rare and very expensive.

Why do you think I was so reluctant to give it up?

So, you didn't.

I was going to.

When I got back from the competition,

I went to get it from my room,

it was gone.

Next morning, so was Mr. Bowe.

And whoever nicked my knife never gave it back.

But I don't think you're gonna find Mr. Bowe

by finding my knife.

We found a body buried in the woods behind the school.

Mr. Bowe?

Don't know that yet.

But we think whoever it was had been stabbed.

So, if it does turn out to be Jason bowe,

the man who was having an affair with your girlfriend,

the man who went missing

the same night as your hunting knife,

can you see where I'm going with this?

I've never hurt anyone in my life.

I didn't know anything about Mr. Bowe and Eleanor.

Where were you that night?

Got drunk in my room and passed out.

- Alone? - Yes.

You understand why I wouldn't

just take your word for that.

If you found him in the woods, then...

The school's locked up at night,

I couldn't have got out without setting the alarm off.

And even if I could,

I wouldn't have been able to get back in again.

This is nothing to do with me.

I swear to you.

I'll only be gone for two nights.

There's some chicken in a tupperware

on the second shelf of the fridge,

and there's some fresh salad in the drawer

for the lasagna, which is in the middle of the fridge.

They're all labelled.

There's some bread there.

Oh, and there's a new marmalade jar in the cupboard,

in case that one runs out.

And

there are your spare glasses.

Do not lose those as well.

I didn't lose them.

Now, did you hear what I said about the lasagna?

What lasagna?

For your tea tomorrow.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

Right, how long do you have to cook it for?

What?

You weren't listening, were you?

Esther, I'm working.

You're not working, you're hiding from me.

You have been ever since Jack retired.

Look, see, working.

What is the matter, Brian?

How much do you think a new computer centre

for a posh private school costs?

I can't see how they can afford it.

I shall miss these intimate little chats while I'm away.

[Mysterious music]

Yep.

Bowe did spend that last night in the pub.

The landlord said that he was talking to

and being bought drinks by a bloke called Lucas graves,

local property developer.

Apparently he didn't speak to the regulars,

which was unusual, and then he left

10 minutes before closing, which, again, was unusual.

Lucas graves, where do I know that name from?

Lucas graves, the owner of lgg developments.

The company that dug up the body.

Oh.

Oh.

[Lucas] You're asking me to remember a conversation

I had with a virtual stranger five years ago.

[Sandra] Apparently you bought him

drinks all night, Mr. Graves.

Which was pretty generous of you if you didn't know him.

I'm a generous man, I buy a lot of people drinks.

He was often in the pub,

and normally, he was quite chatty with everyone,

but that night, he was really quiet.

So, I asked him what was wrong and I bought him a drink.

And what was wrong?

He'd been having some trouble

with old Archie milgrow, the Latin teacher.

But it didn't seem like that big a deal to me.

And yet he disappeared a short while later.

Well, obviously, if i'd known that in advance,

then I might've dug a bit deeper.

Assuming the body in the woods is Jason bowe,

then Oliver lebbon must be our prime suspect.

He considered bowe to be his mentor and his friend,

but actually was shagging his girlfriend.

Lebbon had a thing about knives,

and the knife he had at school,

which he was supposed to hand in to bowe,

went missing the same night as bowe did.

Oliver lebbon says that he was

passed out in his room all night,

but there's no one to corroborate that.

If it wasn't lebbon, could it have been Eleanor Higgins?

According to her school file,

her mother died in a car accident when she was 11 years old.

She received counselling for it,

but there's mention here of self-harming after that.

There's certainly psychological issues.

If she'd become too attached to bowe

and it seemed like he didn't reciprocate.

And if she knew about lebbon's knife

and he was telling the truth about it going missing,

then maybe she took it.

Well, there's no way to pursue that

without either a murder weapon

or a positive ID on the body.

And I want to look at the school finances.

Why?

Because this school's practically deserted.

Attendances are down across the board

at independent schools.

They're all struggling for money.

But this lot are about to open

a state of the art computer centre.

How can they afford it?

What's that got to do with the missing pe teacher?

He might be onto something.

Claire swane, English teacher.

She started at peregrine manor in the summer of 2007,

and appears to have been fired

six weeks into the following Autumn term.

[Sandra] Okay.

I can't find her.

The references don't check out,

and the forwarding address she gave is fake.

Another missing teacher.

So, maybe Brian's right, maybe there is

something more sinister going on in this place.

[Mysterious music]

Oh, no, sorry.

No.

- [Knocking on door] - I keep asking-

Mr. Lane, what can we do for you?

Oh, Helen, if you could check all the students

have clean blazers for tomorrow, time is ticking on.

[Elizabeth sighs]

We've been going through your staff reports,

and we found a teacher called Claire swane.

Now, you let go of her during the Autumn term of 2007.

Yes, her timekeeping was dreadful,

she never seemed to be where she was supposed to be.

Did her references check out?

Well, yes, of course, why?

Well, because we can't track down any of her referees.

And the forwarding address she left doesn't exist.

Well, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about that.

Do you know, from your school photographs,

it looks like the numbers have been falling

for the last 10 years.

That must've caused a bit of belt tightening.

We receive very generous donations.

It's one of the benefits of being

such a well connected school.

Wouldn't it be easier to allow students from overseas

to make up the numbers?

That's what other independent schools do.

That hasn't been necessary.

What has this got to do with Jason bowe?

It's just that if you're relying

on what's basically charity,

rather than having the security of fee-paying pupils,

well, that doesn't make sense, does it?

This school was founded to provide

an education for English boys and girls.

It's part of the school's heritage.

You mean white, English boys and girls?

Your ancestor, Edwin Clayton,

he was against the abolition of slavery, wasn't he?

And your grandfather, Arthur Clayton,

was one of oswald mosley's most fervent supporters.

[Elizabeth] I don't see the relevance.

Do you know, I haven't seen a single

Asian or black pupil in this place, not one.

Are you calling me a racist?

I'm just making an observation.

An offensive one.

And I might say the same of you.

I see no coloured faces in your team,

and very few in your higher ranks.

But we have some, rather than none.

I'd like to take a look at your financial records.

I'm sure your efforts would be better spent

concentrating outside the school,

but go ahead.

It may take you some time.

Our system is still on paper.

Oh, I'm good on paper.

[Mysterious music]

Any possible Jack replacements yet?

Not as yet, no.

There's got to be someone.

[Phone rings]

Sir.

Oh.

Yep.

Yeah, will do, thanks for letting us know.

We're done.

The dental records are a match for Jason bowe,

so I've got to hand it over to mit.

I wouldn't be too quick with that.

I've found Claire swane.

Where?

In the ucos files.

Her real name was Claire swan.

And her listed profession is private investigator.

So, she must've been undercover at the school.

Missing or dead?

Dead, hit and run.

Two days after she left peregrine manor.

And lebbon couldn't have killed them both

because when Claire swan was run over,

he was still in hospital

recovering from his surfing accident.

But now she's a cold case,

I think we should keep them both with ucos.

[Mysterious music]

That policeman working late.

Maybe I should take him a cup of tea.

This isn't a game, Helen.

Enough is enough, you don't need it.

Give it back, it needs to be destroyed.

It's not that simple.

- Of course it is. - Nothing's changed.

Not for me.

Believe me, Helen, you do not know what you have,

and you do not want to come out on the wrong side of this.

Oh, bloody hell!

That chair's about 200 years old.

What the...

I don't think you should stand on it.

No.

What do you think that camera's pointing at?

I don't know, something.

They normally do.

What are you doing out of bed?

I'm conducting an experiment.

Since they found those bones,

everyone's going on about the peregrine poltergeist.

I'm not following you.

All the stuff that goes missing,

they think the poltergeist takes it.

What kind of stuff?

Weird things.

Toothbrushes, bits of clothes.

Been happening for years, apparently.

So, what's the camera and the thermometer all about?

Well, sometimes, ghost and spirits can be caught on film,

even if you can't see them in real life.

Plus a sudden drop in temperature

can be a sign of a paranormal presence.

Well, you've done your research.

Anything so far?

Nothing conclusive.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Well, I'm trying to keep an open mind.

But no, not really.

No, I didn't think so.

Not with you being out here

on your own in the middle of the night.

I did try to do it this afternoon after prep,

but people got in the way.

Yeah, people tend to do that.

But have you not got a friend

you could do this kind of thing with?

I did have a friend.

David.

He left, though.

He had to go somewhere else.

Yeah, I had a friend like that.

[Jacob] Do you miss him?

Do you miss David?

[Door creaking]

Shh.

What are you still doing here?

The doors are locked, I couldn't get out.

Stay there, I'll come down.

I'm sorry, I didn't wake you, did I?

No, no, I'm a terrible sleeper.

When my son was little, he was hyperactive.

Three hours sleep a night seems to become a habit.

Which school did he go to?

He's here.

Oh, that's a nice staff perk.

Well, it isn't normally allowed.

Took some hefty persuasion, believe me.

I was going to make some hot chocolate.

Do you fancy a mug?

Well, then I can set you up

in one of the empty dorms for the night.

Oh, that would be...

Yeah, yeah, go on, then.

Thanks very much.

I have a secret stash of marshmallows.

Do you like marshmallows?

No.

You're not really like the rest of them, are you?

I don't know what you mean.

You know, privileged, wealthy, entitled.

Oh, I see.

No, no, hardly.

And yet you're happy to make

your son a part of that world.

I'd like to think I have some influence over who he is,

the person he becomes.

But a good education.

The school he was at, the local school,

he was in trouble there.

Drinking.

Drugs, I think, well, I suspect.

And he was only 12.

There's too many children.

Those poor children.

Too many of them in a class.

How can they learn?

How can they be helped?

And I know you're supposed to do something to

help make things better, but...

Who am I?

And all the time I was working here,

I'm seeing the opportunities this school gives these kids.

And you look at the disparity.

Had to do better for him.

And you think to yourself,

by hook or by crook.

It's defeat, in a way.

But what's the alternative?

For him, I mean.

Do you have children?

Yeah, a son.

[Helen] Grown up now?

Oh, yeah.

What does he do?

Well, he used to be an accountant.

I'm not sure now.

I used to drink.

Well, I better get to bed.

Thanks for the cocoa.

Second on the left, yeah?

That's right.

[Brian] Thanks.

- Goodnight. - Night.

I think I've found something.

You know, parents can't afford

to send their kids to independent schools anymore.

Admissions are way down year on year.

So, schools are having to make up the shortfall in income

by bringing in high-paying foreign students.

Yeah, but ku klux Clayton

won't let anyone in who's not white.

Exactly.

So, this school's short of money,

and yet Geoffrey parks is on his way

to open up a brand new computer centre.

How did they pay for that?

Charitable donations.

From very wealthy, very influential people.

There's a fella here called Ali Khan.

An Indian technology millionaire.

He donated £180,000 to this school last year.

Now, why's a bloke from his background

giving money to a school like this?

After Khan had made his donation,

a government data contract was issued to his firm in Mumbai

to the tune of 20 million quid,

by a select committee headed by Geoffrey parks.

All these donors have benefited in some way

as a direct result of Geoffrey parks' actions in government.

And if that's what Claire swan found out.

Yeah, hold on, but none of this goes to parks.

It all comes to the school.

Well, if we're following this train of thought,

he has to get something out of it,

and something worth killing for.

[Phone rings]

Mr. Graves, you hired Claire swan

to go undercover at peregrine manor.

Why?

About six years ago,

I heard the school was in financial trouble,

so I made an offer on it, a generous one.

I quite fancied the place as a country club and hotel.

Clayton wouldn't sell, though,

so I got Claire to go in as a teacher

and see if she could find some leverage.

If they were having money trouble

and if she could find a bit of scandal,

well, Clayton might've had to rethink.

And what did she find out?

Well, that's the thing, she never told me.

She called to say that she was out of the school

and she'd found something that might be big.

Said she'd call again when she'd checked out the facts.

But the next night, she was killed, and that was that.

Was it originally Claire swan

who told you the school was in financial trouble?

God, no, that was Archie milgrow.

He rents a lockup at one of my premises,

has done for years.

[Ominous music]

[Brian clears throat]

Archie milgrow, the peregrine poltergeist.

Do you know how long I've been at that school?

35 years.

Hundreds of pupils, teachers who come and go.

None of them remember me.

You stole from them.

I didn't steal.

Not really.

I took nothing valuable.

Why did you take Mr. Lane's glasses?

He's not part of the school.

You, this.

It's all part of my story.

All these things, they're my memories,

my photo albums, if you will.

They're proof.

Proof of what?

Proof that I was ever here at all.

It's quite the collection.

When did you start, 15 years ago?

I don't know exactly.

Oh, I think you do.

It's quite clear to us.

You see, although you didn't take

something from every student,

you took something from every teacher

who worked at that school since then.

All except one.

Jason bowe.

Why did you take nothing of his?

I have to tell you, Mr. Milgrow,

that right now, things aren't looking that good for you.

None of this is exactly normal,

but the one teacher who isn't represented in your collection

is the one you were seen arguing with

on the night he disappeared.

Did he find out about your little hobby?

A few days before the end of term,

he saw me taking something from the laundry room

and followed me to the lockup.

He said I was perverted.

On reflection, perhaps the item I'd taken hadn't helped.

A red bra belonging to Melissa parks.

He took it away, along with his t-shirt.

What happened after that?

I begged him not to report me.

He said he'd decide what to do while he was away.

That's what we were discussing on that last night.

Lebbon's knife went missing.

Maybe you took it while he was away,

and then when Jason bowe came back

and decided to report you.

You stabbed him.

I didn't kill him.

[Crowd applauding]

Thank you, Mr. Parks,

for taking time out of your very busy schedule.

[Crowd chattering]

I thought you'd left.

We've taken somebody in for questioning.

Archie milgrow.

He's the thief.

The peregrine poltergeist.

Jason bowe knew about it and was gonna report him.

Archie.

Oh, I'm quite surprised.

How did you manage that?

Bowe caught him stealing Melissa parks' red bra

and followed him.

Maybe I should let her know.

[Frightening music]

You're as bad as him.

You're as bad as him, you liar, stupid, fat liar!

What are you talking about?

You're crazy!

Don't touch me, you liar!

I hate you, don't touch me!

I snuck into Jason's room to surprise him when he got back.

It was the last night of term

and I didn't really care if I got caught.

And there it was on his bed.

Her bra.

I knew it was hers, stupid, fat cow.

Melissa, fat?

Hardly.

She got fat at school.

Porky parks.

You thought he'd slept with her.

She told everyone that she lost it

getting off with somebody.

Went round the whole school.

Every boy denying it was them.

And then there it was in Jason's room.

That must've made you extremely angry.

We argued, yes, I was hysterical.

Asked him how long it'd been going on for.

And what did he say?

He said the bra was nothing like that,

and that he loved me.

But he wouldn't give me another explanation.

Just said I had to trust him.

I said some terrible things.

I told him I was going to tell miss Clayton

that he'd raped me.

In the morning, he was gone.

And you called Geoffrey parks a liar.

I think you've got history with the parks family

that predates Jason bowe.

My mother used to work for Geoffrey parks.

Are you trying to say that you think

they were more than work colleagues?

She bought new things.

Underwear.

Started working late.

Father didn't like it.

She was working late the night she died.

What do you mean, Eleanor?

The coroner's report said she was alone in the car,

but the doors weren't locked.

The report says the doors weren't locked.

If my mother was alone in the car or just with me,

she always locked the doors from the inside, always.

So, someone must've been with her.

Whoever was with her left her there to die.

He didn't even call an ambulance.

She was my best friend when we were little, you know?

Until the accident.

Then we drifted.

I started gaining weight, and we moved to different friends.

Why would she call your dad a liar?

I don't know.

She used to love my dad when we were kids.

Something changed after the accident.

But your father and her mother were close, yes?

They worked together, of course they were close.

That was it.

If I hadn't told that stupid lie about the bra,

none of this would've come up.

Why would you make something like that up?

You have no idea what it's like,

to be the chubby girl at school.

Porky parks.

Pretending not to care about the snide digs.

I just wanted to feel attractive,

normal, like someone liked me.

Eleanor wasn't the only one with problems.

Your father's gone, Melissa,

there's a cab for you at the side gate.

And Mr. Lane.

If you could return the financial records

to my office before you leave.

Right, this is starting to make sense.

Eleanor Higgins.

She has a history of self-harming,

she's emotionally unstable,

she's involved in a relationship with Jason bowe,

and she's come to believe that he's having an affair

with Melissa parks.

Who's the daughter of the man that Eleanor believes

was in the car when her mother crashed.

But she couldn't have done it.

The school was locked up and she was inside.

How could she have got out?

[Mysterious music]

Remember what you said the other night?

About what?

I asked you where this camera was pointing.

You said somewhere, they normally do.

Stay here.

Absolutely not.

No, I didn't think you would.

[Mysterious music]

We must be outside the school perimeter by now.

The gardener's hut is only a few metres

from where the body was found.

You know that if any blood was spilled in that shed,

then our forensic team will find it,

no matter how hard you think you scrubbed.

And I imagine that some of it will be yours, won't it?

You took Oliver lebbon's knife

out of his room while he was away.

To cut yourself?

Or to kill Jason bowe?

It was an accident.

I put a note under Jason's door

and told him to meet me in the shed.

I said if he didn't come, I'd slit my wrists.

Just kept thinking about that bra.

And Melissa and her father.

My mother.

Melissa's red bra.

My mother bought new underwear before she died.

My father had shouted about it,

and I couldn't understand why.

Thinking about Jason and Melissa

made me think about my mother and Geoffrey parks

and the car doors, and I didn't know why.

I was just shouting all of this at Jason.

And I started cutting myself right there in front of him.

He tried to stop me.

Then you stabbed him.

It was an accident, he was trying to stop me,

and the knife just was so sharp,

it didn't even go in that far,

I could still see half the blade,

but I just couldn't bring myself to take it out.

But you didn't try to get any help?

No, he died.

Dragged him out into the woods and buried him.

You dragged a fully-grown man at dead weight

into the woods all by yourself.

I couldn't do that,

and I bet I'm a whole lot stronger than you.

Unless you were extremely unlucky

with where that knife hit,

Jason bowe would've been alive

for quite some time after you stabbed him,

so your story is all very neat and tidy and tragic,

but the ending doesn't work.

Who helped you?

That's what happened.

[Children shouting]

Right, then.

Are you leaving?

Yes.

Eleanor Higgins has confessed to Jason bowe's murder.

Eleanor.

Poor girl.

It's hard to believe.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

You don't sound convinced.

Well, she's more convinced than we are.

What do you mean?

Well, Eleanor's version of events

doesn't fit with the forensic evidence.

I don't know, maybe she's just misremembering a few things.

It was a long time ago.

Yeah.

Well, it was nice to meet you.

And thanks again for that cocoa.

Why would she say she'd killed him if she hadn't?

Maybe to protect someone.

But there isn't anyone.

He was a big lad, Jason, heavy.

A lot to drag through the woods and Bury all by yourself.

Plus she was bleeding, 'cause she had some injuries, too.

You think someone helped her?

It's possible.

And now she's covering for them.

Even if she had help burying him, she still...

She still did what she said.

Killed him, I mean.

Maybe.

But the wound that she inflicted shouldn't have been fatal.

So, if whoever was helping her

actually finished him off, then...

She could've spent all this time

thinking she killed someone.

[Mysterious music]

I expect it'll all come out in the wash.

Yes.

There's something you need to see.

And when you've seen it, I'll accept the consequences.

[Brian] Helen Hadley's been sitting on this footage

since the night of those deaths.

[Sandra] That makes her an accessory after the fact.

After a few minutes, we get this.

[Ominous music]

Well, well, well.

Then there's a time gap of about an hour and a half,

before this.

We should bring her in.

It's not enough.

But we see her.

We see her with an upset girl, that's all.

No body, no murder weapon.

So, now what?

Okay, regardless of what we can prove,

we feel certain that Clayton

helped Eleanor Bury that body, right?

Right.

So, she goes into the shed

and sees Jason bowe on the floor.

She's probably left Eleanor out in the passageway

or sent her out of the room.

Bowe is still alive because the wound

that Eleanor describes giving him couldn't have killed him,

so Clayton could've saved him, but she didn't.

Why?

What made her stick the knife in deeper?

Well, the consequences of him surviving this

were obviously greater than

the consequences of her killing him.

Eleanor said that before she stabbed bowe,

she was ranting at him about her mother's crash.

Well, is that it?

Her talking about Geoffrey parks

in relation to her mum's death,

is that the knowledge that got bowe killed?

It's what Clayton's got on parks.

It's how she's getting donations to the school.

So, the way she sees it,

she killed Jason bowe to protect the school's future.

Yeah, but she's not gonna admit it, is she?

And we can't prove anything

that happened that night of the crash.

Parks is hardly gonna tell the truth,

and Eleanor's testimony wouldn't stand up in court.

But she wasn't the only one traumatised by those events.

If parks was in that car,

then there are two families involved.

We've focused on Eleanor because she was the one

that gave us the story in the first place.

Plus she was the one most obviously affected by it.

Maybe we should be looking elsewhere.

You and Eleanor were the best of friends, weren't you?

Right up until her mother's car crash.

So?

Well, everyone can see how it damaged Eleanor.

But you changed after that as well.

I put on some weight.

Lots of kids do.

Ah, you put on a lot of weight, very quickly.

And this all started just after Eleanor's mother died.

See, a lot of what's going on here

seems to lead back to the events of that night.

Where was your dad that night?

At home.

This isn't a formal interview, you know.

Nothing's being recorded.

There's nobody listening.

I'm not even a policeman.

I'm retired.

Whatever happened that night, you filed it away.

So you didn't have to look at it.

That's when you started eating.

That's when you started to distance yourself from Eleanor.

That way, you could pretend it never happened.

Well, maybe now's the time to get it off your chest, eh?

Something woke me up.

Maybe it was the sound of the car pulling in the drive.

It was late.

I wanted a glass of water.

I was at the top of the stairs when the front door opened.

My father came in.

He was crying.

I was only 11.

He was my dad, I couldn't understand why he was crying.

I ran back to bed.

Next day, they all acted so normal, even my mother.

She came and told me that...

That Eleanor's mother had died.

I asked her about the night before, where dad had been.

She said he hadn't gone out.

When he came in, he was on his own, was he?

No.

Miss Clayton was with him.

He'd ran away from the accident.

He must've rung her, 'cause she drove him home.

You know, you really should put this down in a statement.

Eleanor's whole future could depend on it.

I know you're not friends now,

but you were.

This is a complete fantasy.

No, it isn't.

Then I presume you have some evidence.

We have a videotape from

the night that Jason bowe disappeared

which Helen Hadley tells us

you're very anxious to get hold of.

We've also got a statement from Melissa parks,

telling us that you brought Geoffrey parks home

on the night of the crash.

She was 11 years old.

Eleanor Higgins is next door,

she's confessed to the murder of Jason bowe,

but we said we didn't believe

that she buried him on her own.

We also told her that we doubt

that she delivered the fatal blow.

She's confused at the moment,

but it won't be long before she realises

what really happened in that shed and gives you up.

At which point, you will have the testimony

of a psychologically damaged,

emotionally distraught young girl,

against the word of a woman whose family

has run one of the finest schools in england

for six generations.

That's the point, isn't it?

That's what all this is about.

You'll do anything to save your school,

but what's gonna happen when Eleanor finally gives you up,

and unreliable testimony or not,

we bring in Geoffrey parks

and present him with everything we've discovered?

Do you think parks cares more about your school

than he does about his own career?

No.

He's gonna paint you as a murderess and a blackmailer.

And he'd be more than happy to sink your school

to save himself.

If you're really serious about saving your school,

it's time for you to fall on your sword.

I think I'm gonna need a lawyer, aren't I?

[Peaceful music]

I never asked Elizabeth outright what happened that night.

I thought she just helped, with the body.

I thought Eleanor had killed him.

I couldn't afford a school like this for my son.

Well, you've paid in other ways, though, haven't you?

All the sleepless nights.

I don't like to sleep.

Jason bowe haunts my dreams.

He's always cold.

Have you come to arrest me?

They're waiting at the front.

You found a new Jack in those files?

You haven't even read any of them yet, have you?

Don't you start.

Look, Sandra, you're not the only one

who misses that miserable old bugger, you know.

I wish he hadn't left, but he has,

and he's not coming back.

Gerry, I don't need a lecture.

Well, tough.

Whether you like it or not, Jack has gone.

But Brian and I, we're still here,

and we can't do all this by ourselves,

so read the bloody files.

All right, all right, I'll read them, okay?

- Yeah, properly. - Properly.

- Promise? - Promise.

- Goodnight. - Night.

Brian?

Oh!

Remind me never to get that train again,

it was full of commuters.

I think the journey was nearly as tiring

as looking after Jenny.

Oh, she's camped out on the sofa, poor thing,

her ankle's black and blue, it's all swollen up.

All she did was come off the curb.

Anyway, Anne's there till after the weekend,

so I gave them both your love.

What you doing sitting here like this in the silence?

Did you drop off?

No, no.

Just thinking.

Oh.

Just thinking.

Right, well, I'll leave you to it, then.

I fancy a bath, anyway.

[Brian] I'm glad you're home.

[Esther] Are you?

And I'm sorry.

You know, for snapping at you.

What is the matter, Brian?

Why don't you just tell me, put us both out of our misery?

Just sit with me, will you?

All right.

What is it?

It's a secret.

But it keeps gnawing away in me head.

[Sighs]

I don't think I can carry it on me own.

You can share it with me, then, can't you?

Hm?

When you're ready.

I think I'm ready.

Well, go on.

It's about Jack.

♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ it doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right, we're doing fine ♪

♪ it doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right, I say, it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪